Ayrshire Alps Sportive September 2025

The hilly roads of South Carrick make up the ultimate road cyclist’s playground. Popularly referred to as ‘the Ayrshire Alps’, the landscape offers fantastic scenery, cycle friendly roads, and a tough cycling challenge.

This exciting sportive launched with great success in 2022, with a choice of the long 80 mile route with 2170m climb, a medium 62 mile route or the shorter 48 mile course with 1300m climb offered a challenge again this year. Stiff climbs and sweeping descents over spectacular hills, including the iconic Nic o’Balloch, were guaranteed as were the really quiet roads. However, this year again, a gravel path route had been added.

The event base was at Turnberry airfield, with feed stations in Straiton and Barr, offering soup, filled rolls, tea coffee and home baking all supplied by Rotarian spouses and partners. A network of signed hill climbs, stylish mapped and promoted forms the basis of this event. In excess of 120 riders pre-registered. They started to arrive on a bright chilly but damp morning at Turnberry and set off between 8.00am and 10.00am. For this fourth event, Ayr Rotary Club were delighted to partner again with the Malawi Fruits charity which is a Scottish Charity that was established in 2011 to work with their partners in Malawi to establish and grow sustainable community businesses in the north of Malawi.

This year’s event has raised an amazing circa £4000

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